As someone who has lived in islands like Ibiza and Lanzarote, it is shocking for me the use of "an island is an isolated place" mentality.
Maybe is people used to drive for moving, not imagining anything else as a possibility. People living in islands learn to pilot a boat and boom, you can move all around the Mediterranean and even the world.
Islands in the Mediterranean were the most connected things you could get in ancient times. And islands today continue being one of the most connected things there are.
In Ibiza there was ancient contact with Romans, Greeks, Carthaginians, Arabs, vikings, and later people from Aragon, Napoli, and Turks, then the French, the British, the Germans, then the Americans. The American hippies that hid from Vietnam occupied the island, Russian oligarchs on their yachts and later the Germans.
Almost everybody there living from tourism and commerce, not specially isolated disciplines.
The Canary Islands were the essential link between America and Europe.
It is over ten times cheaper to transport anything by sea than by land. Go to Ethiopia or Central African Republic to see how not having access to sea is a dramatic thing for a country.
Maybe is people used to drive for moving, not imagining anything else as a possibility. People living in islands learn to pilot a boat and boom, you can move all around the Mediterranean and even the world.
Islands in the Mediterranean were the most connected things you could get in ancient times. And islands today continue being one of the most connected things there are.
In Ibiza there was ancient contact with Romans, Greeks, Carthaginians, Arabs, vikings, and later people from Aragon, Napoli, and Turks, then the French, the British, the Germans, then the Americans. The American hippies that hid from Vietnam occupied the island, Russian oligarchs on their yachts and later the Germans.
Almost everybody there living from tourism and commerce, not specially isolated disciplines.
The Canary Islands were the essential link between America and Europe.
It is over ten times cheaper to transport anything by sea than by land. Go to Ethiopia or Central African Republic to see how not having access to sea is a dramatic thing for a country.